InternationalLover82 said:

noimageatall said:

Getting a handwritten letter in the mail...

Letters are beyond romantic!! I wanna start doing that..emails are so lame and NOT romantic

Lol!! I remember writing love letters to my b/f when we were kids, spraying it with perfume.........U just cant spray an email with perfume!!!!

physco185 said:

remember when they used to serve hot chips wrapped in news paper

And meat as well & put it in a paper bag! And paper bags at the grocery store!!! Wow id forgotten about these things!!!

Also remember going to the shop for my dad & buying his cigarettes for him at the age of like nine!!!!!

I remember my dads paper drivers license, him & his mates used to use each others license if they didnt have one, naughty naughty!!!

lovesexy06...... do u ummmmmmmmmmm remember dollspoint?????

and polish club

physco185 said:

lovesexy06...... do u ummmmmmmmmmm remember dollspoint?????

and polish club

Nah, I can't say i do, but what ever happened to Physical Culture or phyzzie, damn i remember doing that as a kid, i havn't heard of it over the 20 yrs( wow were did 20 yrs go?), all the girls did it when i was little. I was born in '73 so im remebering alot of stuff the '80s, Strawberry Shortcake dolls & Cabbage Patch Kids were huge when I was a kid, Oh & Pound Puppies, My God all things I havn't thought about for ages!!!!! Even television shows, LOL!!!!!

Just little things that this thread has made me remember, the Australian $1 coin came out in '84, same year as Purple Rain, i think from mem, I was on a coach on my way back from Perth!!! And a guy on the coach bought one for every child on board!!!

Deluxe coaches, Lol, they went broke!!

Just like Compass airlines, the first cheapie airline, I think!!! Back in '92 not long before or after Prince toured Aus!!! Depending on your age your parents will remember this.

Wow you all are really taking me back!

Some of what's been mentioned I really do miss;

- Typewriters

- records & record players

- TOWER RECORDS ( my kids will never know the joy of "flipping through records" on a Friday night)

- drive-in movie theaters

...and of course, classic PRINCE!

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lovesexy06 said:

InternationalLover82 said:

Letters are beyond romantic!! I wanna start doing that..emails are so lame and NOT romantic

Lol!! I remember writing love letters to my b/f when we were kids, spraying it with perfume.........U just cant spray an email with perfume!!!!

I still do that.

the caching of a cash register

the chirpy chatter of a reel to reel in rewind

oh yes, me too - the individual juke boxes at each table in the old diners

the dollar bill

those dollar photo booths you used to find in the malls. Snap snap snap

the couture of the classic 60's fashion - not the hippie stuff, but the Coco Chanel, Marc Bohan, Givenchy, Dior, Fabiani... those collars, those fitted dresses - ahhhh

yes again to taking a nickel to the corner store and getting a small paper bag full of mixed candy. All for five cents.

Red said:

the caching of a cash register

the chirpy chatter of a reel to reel in rewind

oh yes, me too - the individual juke boxes at each table in the old diners

the dollar bill

those dollar photo booths you used to find in the malls. Snap snap snap

the couture of the classic 60's fashion - not the hippie stuff, but the Coco Chanel, Marc Bohan, Givenchy, Dior, Fabiani... those collars, those fitted dresses - ahhhh

yes again to taking a nickel to the corner store and getting a small paper bag full of mixed candy. All for five cents.

the "be kind rewind" sticker on VHS tapes . . .

heck, VHS tapes!!!

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shausler said:

Red said:

the caching of a cash register

the chirpy chatter of a reel to reel in rewind

oh yes, me too - the individual juke boxes at each table in the old diners

the dollar bill

those dollar photo booths you used to find in the malls. Snap snap snap

the couture of the classic 60's fashion - not the hippie stuff, but the Coco Chanel, Marc Bohan, Givenchy, Dior, Fabiani... those collars, those fitted dresses - ahhhh

yes again to taking a nickel to the corner store and getting a small paper bag full of mixed candy. All for five cents.

the "be kind rewind" sticker on VHS tapes . . .

heck, VHS tapes!!!

.

[Edited 3/6/11 16:38pm]

oh yes...I always rewound...but I hardly ever got a tape that was rewound - hated that. I still rent VHS.

myfavorite said:

Woolworths department store diner ....

OMG, YES! I used to go there when I was a young kid, with my mother, and get a shrimp basket and a bowl of vegetable soup. They had the best soup in the world.

Hairy dicks.

vainandy said:

Hairy dicks.

but i thought u had a wig for that mess

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I miss drawn animated movies... non of this CG Pixar stuff, sometimes its nice to see drawing styles of the movie.

I think Sleeping Beauty was the very last hand drawn movie. I love the tones in that movie... animated movies like Lion King, Alladin and Beauty and the Beast were not done by hand exclusively, but I miss movies being made that way.

Thank God for anime.

shausler said:

I miss leaving a movie half way through as my folks would say "this is where we came in"

I miss the drive -in!

I miss popped popcorn that was popped AT the theater you were seeing the movie...

jtfolden said:

something in my inbox

EMAILS!!!!!

lovesexy06 said:

physco185 said:

does anyone actually miss street directories?????

and... do they still exist??????

Lol!!!! I still have one ............. & use it!!!!!!!!!

I had to use one on Monday, but I was reading it on the front porch, plotting my course, and then I accidentally left it there and had to kind of find my way by memory, which went surprisingly well I like the book better than a GPS, you get your bearings on a broader perspective

Being in paid employment

Adorecream said:

Being in paid employment

good one !

dial tones

today was hot

i actually miss Mr Whippy

i luved that pied piper tune that easily persuaded me to venture outdoors bare footed onto the sizzling concrete just for one lick

good dick

half gallon ice cream

Amway products

operators (aka a live person) instead of phone trees

Celebrities with at least an ounce of self respect/decorum

Streets without Camera's to give you tickets. In my state if you don't wait 4.5 seconds at full stop at a red traffic light and turn right-you have run a red light. ($$$$)

Pants that covered people's butts.

Cheap gas

Cheap food

(The dollar stretched further back in the day)

kewlschool said:

operators (aka a live person) instead of phone trees

Celebrities with at least an ounce of self respect/decorum

Streets without Camera's to give you tickets. In my state if you don't wait 4.5 seconds at full stop at a red traffic light and turn right-you have run a red light. ($$$$)

Pants that covered people's butts.

Cheap gas

Cheap food

(The dollar stretched further back in the day)

that and streets with no speed humps.....

they r currently putting 2 on the bridge near my place....... it's a very steep windy road leading to a little bridge and the humps r not far from the path that leads to the creek... i can see some one losing control hitting the humps and flying into a tree or down into the water..... IDIOTS!!!!

there has never been an accident there.... but now there will be

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I said I missed getting letters in the mail but now I miss the hell out of stationary. Wanted to write someone. Been everywhere trying to find some nice stationary and can't believe you have to go to a specialty store to buy it. I don't want to order it online.

Can't write a letter on notebook paper. I hope Staples has some.

Today I missed my old shower nozzle… it had more water pressure than the new one and I just needed that for my back

why change shower nozzles for... what's wrong with ppl!!!!